Where: Cuba (20.3° N, 74.5° W: paleocoordinates 20.4° N, 73.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• equivalent to Bowden Marl
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; yellow marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524 [R. Baron-Szabo/R. Baron-Szabo/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124532: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Porites baracoaensis n. sp.
Porites baracoaensis n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral | |
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
Pocillopora baracoaensis n. sp. Vaughan 1919 stony coral |